Billy Corben, the famed documentary filmmaker behind such hits as "Cocaine Cowboys" and ESPN’s 30 for 30 "The U," is back with a new film and it’s one he doesn’t think Major League Baseball and Alex Rodriguez will be rushing out to see.

"Screwball," which is set to premiere this Saturday at Doc NYC and will likely have a wider release as soon as spring of 2019, takes you on a fun trip back to when performance-enhancing drugs were all the rage in MLB and provides incredible details about A-Rod’s usage of PEDs (and all the things he did to try to keep it quiet) as well as that of other stars, such as Manny Ramirez and Ryan Braun, who also got busted.

The story dives into what happened after Rodriguez’s memorable news conference at spring training in 2009 when he admitted to using PEDs in the past and said that everyone should take his word on it that he wouldn’t use them again and to judge him on his actions from that day going forward. It goes into how A-Rod saw the success a juiced-up Manny, who would get hit with a 50-game suspension for PEDs, had with the Dodgers and asked Tony Bosch to get him on that program. It goes into how A-Rod hit three home runs in a game against the Royals shortly after starting treatments with Bosch. It goes into A-Rod’s battle with MLB to try to get his season-plus-long suspension overturned. It goes into Rodriguez paying protesters in pizza to show up outside of MLB’s NYC offices on the day of the arbitration hearing when he infamously kicked over a lawyer’s briefcase before storming out of the room.

“Our effort (in telling the story) isn’t to remind everyone what an a—— (Rodriguez) is,” Corben said, “it’s just to tell the truth in what happened in the story.”

But much like Corben’s other work, the tone of the film is done in such a fun way that it’s hard to look away from it during its 90-plus minutes.

“We were looking to create Coen brothers-esque experience of telling a quirky tale about a wild cast of characters… and highlighting the absurdity of it all was the goal,” Corben told For The Win this week. “The idea I came away from it [is], ‘These are the new values of America.’ That’s something I walked away with in the middle of some interviews we did during filming and seeing how Alex and MLB behaved. While it seems like a uniquely Florida story, it struck me as reflecting values of America now, ones that I think are warped and misguided. In the end, (the story) kind of had a ‘crime paid’ aspect to it. MLB and Alex ended up winning. The rich got richer and the poor got poorer and that’s so America 2018.

“I’m certain that this is a documentary that MLB and A-Rod would rather you not see, I’m certain of that,” Corben said.

The story is mostly told through first-hand accounts of two key guys, who happen to be two classic characters from the Miami area — Bosch, the founder and owner of Biogenesis who was also the fake doctor who controlled and oversaw all the players’ PED programs, and Porter Fisher, a South Florida resident who loved tanning salons and Bosch’s ability to make him look buff.

But what makes this documentary unique and enjoyable is that Corben used child actors to play out all the characters in the story, lip-syncing the lines being told by Bosch and Fisher. Here’s a taste of the film, make sure you stick around for A-Rod at the end of this:

Corben didn’t go into this thinking he would have child actors being in it at all, but that the idea struck him one day during filming.

“While watching the interviews of Tony and Porter, I noticed the way they both were very moment-by-moment in the way they tell a story,” Corben said. “They provide the step-by-step dialogue and so I was like, ‘OK, we can Drunk History this.’ And then it struck me how every single adult in this story acted like a child. Every single one of them. I was like here’s our idea. It was a perfect story for it.”

While many players (Manny, Melky Cabrera, Bartolo Colon and others) used Bosch’s services, A-Rod acted much differently and therefore plays a larger role in the film.

“The only reason why Alex is in the movie even more than the others is he appealed the suspension and went on to that arbitration,” Corben explained. “Everyone else just took their lumps because they were guilty. They didn’t want to drag it out any longer than necessary. Alex just didn’t know how to admit he was wrong. That’s the most troubling thing — and ‘Trumpian’ thing about it, too — he was incapable of admitting that he was wrong. He was incapable of admitting that he made a mistake or that he cheated. It was just like, ‘No, I didn’t do this.’ And I don’t even know if he’s ever said out loud, ‘Yes, I did do this.’ He’s joked about it and I guess he’s apologized in some obscure interviews that he’s done more recently but I don’t think he’s ever admitted that ‘Every single thing I said no to and denied — I did all of that.’ And yet he is this beloved and pop-culture figure now.”

A Red Sox shows his feelings toward Alex Rodriguez during a game in 2013.(Photo: Jim Rogash, Getty Images)

So does Corben think all of these details will make people look at A-Rod any differently after seeing the film? In a word, no.

“Everybody remember how much of an a—– he was and nobody cares now,” he said. “We have new values in this country. When we were kids, we were taught core values to a happy, healthy and successful life — honesty, integrity, treating other people the way we would want them to treat us. And now it’s like, lie, cheat, and steal and that’s how you get successful and that’s how you get ahead. And those are sort of the new core American values and that’s what we’re teaching our children. And I think that’s how MLB behaved, that’s how Alex behaved — lie cheat and steal and you can become president of the United States. I think that’s the message we’re sending to our children. Those are America’s new core values for happiness and success so I don’t really see what difference this movie will make in terms of his reputation now – everyone knows what he did and that he lied to everybody with impunity and that he tried to cover it up with impunity. I don’t think the way MLB behaved was that much better, it might have been worse, in fact. I think that might surprise more people than the Alex part of it.”

"Screwball" will teach you things that you didn’t know, or maybe details you forgot about the steroids era in baseball. And it does it all in fun, brilliant ways. It’s also a wild story with so many different characters that could really only take place in the state where Corben was born, raised and resides.

“Florida rarely shocks me, but it regularly disappoints me,” he said. “And this is one of those cases where we might have crossed that threshold.”